Assigned to the 1st Naval District for use as an icebreaker, Rogday departed Sydney on 5 December 1918 bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia. She then moved on from Halifax to Boston, Massachusetts. She remained inactive at Boston until June 1919, when she was ordered to sea to assist the damaged cargo ship USS West Grama (ID-3794) in the North Atlantic Ocean west of Bermuda. She then proceeded eastward to Bermuda, where she anchored from 7 to 11 June 1919 before returning to Boston.

Rogday was decommissioned on 18 June 1919. On 24 September 1919, the Navy transferred he back to the U.S. Shipping Board, which in transferred her back to representatives of the now-deposed Imperial Russian government the same day.